Released last week, the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Sizing Helper is an interactive document that helps you plan and size deployments of Operations Manager 2007 R2. Recommendations from this Microsoft Excel-based tool will include the recommended hardware...

Hello All! We have seen tremendous excitement about the Opalis acquisition from customers and partners alike. This acquisition brings together the deep automation and orchestration expertise of Opalis with the integrated, physical and virtual datacenter...

Looking at desktop virtualization including VDI? Thinking about migrating to Windows 7? Want savings, but unsure of the tradeoffs? Have more questions than answers on the topic? Please mark your calendar for the Desktop Virtualization Hour, Thursday,...

The effective date of the Server Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE) and Server Management Suite Datacenter (SMSD) price increases has been moved from July 1, 2010 to August 1, 2010. Feel free to contact your Microsoft account manager or partner about...

Hi everyone, we start our first in the series on ‘Client Deployment with System Center’, and logically we begin with one of the biggest challenges every customer in the world faces. Applications. Organizations are becoming more and more engaged in what...

Hi everyone, recently we blogged about our upcoming event series , and one of the flagship events we want to make sure you have on your calendar is the Microsoft Management Summit , in Las Vegas the week of April 19th. This annual event is the premier...

[Updated Mar 2: Removed original image of Gartner slide image due to Gartner policy – this can still be viewed in the Gartner presentation .] A while ago, my colleague Jeff Wettlaufer posted a blog that presented a post on CIO.com that presented the ...

By Lori Mac Vitte, Technical Marketing Manager Re-blogged here by Jeff Wettlaufer by request The often touted benefits of “saving money” and “reducing expenses” associated with virtualization and cloud computing are often discussed in the context of reduction...

Hi everyone, we wanted to get you a quick link to a new whitepaper written by our friend and MVP Ment van der Plas . During our recent trip to Amsterdam the team had a chance to sit down with Ment and talk about Virtualization , and in particular his...

Hey everyone, we had a chance to sit and talk with Brad about the upcoming Microsoft Management Summit happening in Las Vegas the week of April 19th. Here is a quick video of the conversation. And, as a reminder, the Early Bird registration closes March...

Over the past week, there has been a lot of talk about Cloud Computing from Microsoft. Steve Ballmer addressed the University of Washington , and a new website focused on cloud computing launched. We wanted to provide an enterprise perspective about what...

Every once in a while, things you’ve worked on for longer than you care to remember, but seemed for way too long to go nowhere fast, just kind of “gel.” This week, amid all sorts of pre-MMS, pre-Convergence madness, we had a moment like that, and I’d...

Good morning everyone, we wanted to get you this update, following from an earlier post this morning on the cloud. Today a blog post was made announcing the Planning and Design Guide for Dynamic Data Center beta. The design process in the free Infrastructure...

The Solution Accelerator Team has just released the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 Beta 1 on Microsoft Connect. Beyond the existing assessment features for upgrades and virtualization, MAP now offers Microsoft Office 2010 upgrade...

Hi everyone, we are always trying to connect you with people around the world that are using System Center technologies, and whenever possible, we want to highlight examples of great content for you to click on. A good friend based over in EMEA, Jannes...